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SXSW 2015: Russell Brand Doc BRAND: A SECOND COMING To Open Festival

The South By Southwest Film Festival announced their opening film and a handful of other titles today. Brand: A Second Coming, a documentary about divisive British comedian Russell Brand will open the festival.From the report at Variety: "Firebrand Ondi Timoner's bold...

Fantasia 2012 Review: BLACK POND

In the running with Quentin Dupieux's Wrong as the funniest entry in the Fantasia and possibly of this year so far, I am going to give Black Pond the edge because of its Errol Morris "Life is pretty damn strange,...

SXSW 2012 Review: BLACK POND Mixes Poetic Drama and Dysfunctional Family Comedy

"I had a dream about ham sandwiches and broadband." Mixing lovely poetic ramblings with self-consciously quirky comedy sounds like a recipe for disaster, and, truth to tell, there are enough half-baked sequences in Black Pond to keep it from being...